Three former Disney Interactive developers have gotten together to form the much better named Shark Punch. On that there website (or embedded above) you can see a teaser for The Masterplan, a 70's styled heist game wherein you assumedly steal all the the United States' gold.

No wonder the country has been so screwed up. They don't teach you everything in history class; for example, Reagan's second mouth in his chest that he used to devour portions of the populous who believed in workers' rights.

Hand drawn, 2D The Masterplan "blends a physics-based world and a clever AI system with a easy to approach 'real time with pause' user interface." It's slated for 2014 release on PC, Mac, and Linux, so hopefully we'll be able to bring you more on it -- how it plays, for instance -- out of GDC...next week. Oh dear. Let's all play Monaco in the interim.

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